Re:START/If {Book 1.0}
Chapter 63 : Aswad 10 of 15 “Unlasting Love” (Part 01)
Opening Note :
Yoi, I haven't updated in a long time. I hope someone remembers this series.
Author apologizes for being updated. Well, know for yourself the time of pandemic like this. Need some adjustments and others
For the beginning of the 3 part update first, continue to be a marathon every day until the next few parts.
If anyone forgets the story, I recommend rereading the Arc 02 or some chapters to the back.
Because this is why I'm turning some of his CH.
Friends …..
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It was a time thousands of years ago, though, when the mainland began to reappear from him to the surface after being drowned by Leviathan ⸻ The Great Sea Dragon who at that time also has been known as a symbol of the wrath of the divine beings. An embodiment of Arsh's will.
Survivors create their own clans, form a land and shoulder to shoulder to shoulder to come out of a critical time when the world has been submerged in water for thousands of years.
Appoint leaders, establish a hierarchy of government, and then create a strong society.
They made a ban on going down to the high seas. Choose to make fields and farms, then make limits on how far they can sail the sea. The community after the great flood lived only on an island, in the middle of an endless expanse of vast oceans.
But several tens of generations later, the surface of the water that shut them on the island is slow sea down. Then marked a very large earthquake to make a giant wave, the surface of the water receded very far from their place and a new land opened.
The people there knew for a moment that they had been living on the top of a very high mountain. When it receded, they realized that their ancestors had lived down there and controlled everything that had been inundated in the water.
Former relics such as hills and mountains are carved into palaces, ritual sites and various kinds of traces of civilization they can see from above.
Residents of the top ⸻ Those from what was once an island were made up of various races such as Humans, Elves, Demi-humans, Descendants of Dragons, etc, and various other intelligent and civilized races.
Realizing a new place after the water receded thousands of kilometers from where they lived, one by one the Patriarchs (family heads) of the peak inhabitants descended from the mountains taking their families and began to form their own territories down there.
Build a country, start a new society and no longer use restrictions on the number of birth rates because the area they have now is very large. To the extent that their feet are not strong to explore the whole. Yet a few decades after they descended from the summit and built a land below, a terrible fact approached them.
The inhabitants of the places they come from are not just them. Monster ⸻ Mutated creatures from the ocean floor begin to adapt and rise to the surface. Like the races from the summit, the creatures from the inland sea began to change their own bodies because of the force of nature to be able to live on land.
Of course creatures like them cannot be spoken to or coexist. Victims one by one fall and become prey for the creatures that in history known as the Deep One.
The evolution of the monsters was very fast, they imitated the other animals and races on the mainland. No less in a decade, there are many types of monsters that have been able to live freely on land and breed very quickly.
Realizing their great differences with the monsters, the races from the surface began to fight to protect the country and their families. As the war for survival unfolded, the relationships they had with their families in other lands were cut short as transportation routes were completely overrun by the monster population.
The difference in strength between the races from the peak and the monsters was too wide, in terms of numbers as well. Breeding monsters dozens of times faster. Every time the monsters preyed on, they would mutate and become stronger. Like the monsters were indeed created to prey on the races that came from the peak.
The only advantage of race from the top was their wits. Intelligence and knowledge are the only things that monsters cannot replicate quickly.
Even so, the race from the peak remained decisively inferior to the monsters that possessed strength and characteristics varied greatly. It was these monsters that first used a power called Magic ⸻ A manipulation of life energy in a body called Mana, then used it to create artificial natural phenomena and control it. Not all monsters can use it, the magic they can use is only limited to making fire or shooting kinetic energy.
Years, decades, until hundreds of years pass and several generations are missed. As time passed like that, the races from the peak could only build a fortress and isolate their city from the outside world. It was during those times that their new generation forgot about it, that they intelligent races were family and came from the same place.
Their history was lost because many Patriarchs were killed before being able to tell the truth to their grandchildren. Books and notes burn to the extent that only those who can write and read are learned. Every scattered country turned cowardly and into a cover, suspecting people who came from outside even though they were actually their distant family.
“We prosper here! As long as we don't provoke those monsters, this city will be safe!”
The City Kings spoke of such things and actually turned into cowards. However, it was also one of the right choices rather than having to send the youngsters out just to get killed.
Monsters are not as smart as they are to make an interracial group, which is why monsters have a tendency to fight each other if they meet other monster groups or their territory is disturbed.
Kill each other, prey on each other, and destroy each other. As if the ecosystem was running like that, the monsters that had once grown so rapidly in number did not increase much anymore. Their position becomes like that of animals in general, only exist in nature and become part of the ecosystem.
They do not hunt animals that descend along with the races from the top, the monsters only prey on each other or opponents of other races. Although some hunted animals to eat, the monsters that did such a thing were only the ones that did not group or leave their group.
But after a thousand years had passed since the races from the summit had descended, a great change came again. The ocean that used to be burning land receded, and then something came up that brought disaster from the place.
When the water recedes, the earthquake occurs until the ground level vibrates, the storm hits the mountain, then lightning strikes the mountain to burn the forest and extreme climate approaches them for a decade.
What emerges from the new land is not from their world, but from elsewhere far away. Devils ⸻ That is how they introduced themselves to the intelligent races who have lived on land. The demons have no physical form in the real world, they get into the monsters and take over the body to be able to maintain their lives.
Just like their souls were indeed so powerful from the start, every monster possessed by demons began to change physically and become like a human. Walking on two legs, has two hands, but still leaves a characteristic of horns, a tail with pointed ends, and a striking skin color.
That was what the King of the Devils said to the City King. It has dark red skin, hair, and eyes. It looked like a monster, but stood on two legs and wore neat clothes like a civilized creature. A hundred more demons who came with him also looked not much different, carrying strange items made with knowledge from a very advanced place.
Of course it was not easy for the races from the peak to accept those demons. Every time they approached the city, the demons were expelled because they looked like monsters and were very scary to the townspeople. The Elves, Demi-humans, Deities, Humans, and various other races from big cities to small expelled them.
Not infrequently they were attacked by residents when they came to a city, to the extent that some of the demons were killed and their souls disappeared. There are some of them who choose to return to Hell and resigned to live in the terrible hometown. The Demon King is a wise leader, he willingly let his followers who want to stop and go home.
Then, there were about 100 demons who continued to travel in the real world with the Demon King. But when for nearly a century the demons traveled from city to city and through the perils of monsters, a city at the far end of the land gave them a different treatment. The Human King there wanted to meet the Demon King and his demon followers, then accept their offer on several conditions.
This is what makes the human race known to be more easily seduced by the demons and the demons also prefer to come to them. Not in a bad sense, but indeed what the demons offered was something that was really needed by the people in the place.
The climate is difficult to starve and crops cannot grow well in the fields, which is why the demons tell us how to make fertilizers to fertilize the soil and the irrigation system.
The plague came with the wind, killing many people with just a gust. However, the demons made medicines to heal them before falling victim.
The dispute arises because of differences in interests. In the evening the Demon King came to the palace to whisper to the King of Man. When morning came, the matter was settled in a peaceful manner with a new policy made.
Because of receiving the demons, the city became the most advanced than the others. The devil is revered in the place, considered a savior and a divine messenger. Other cities became envious, regretful and wanted the demons to come to their place as well.
The requests came mostly from the Human Kings from other cities, then of course it was approved and the knowledge that the demons had spread very quickly.
The monsters they no longer fear. Swords, shields, arrows, and weapons to kill them were easily made and the techniques to use them were developed at a rapid pace. Monsters who used to be top predators instantly disappear, only become hunted creatures there are even some who are used as food when they know some of them have good meat.
It was at that moment that the glory days of the monsters ended.
The Drakes and Wyverns were tamed, becoming their mounts and the outside world again opened free to people who could once only live within the city. Ever since the demons helped the races from the peak, civilization flourished and they were intelligent beings to become figures that again stood at the top of the predator hierarchy on the mainland.
But two centuries of rapid development, other things began to grow in the hearts of the community. The trust mixed in the mind began to turn into fear, anxiety, and slowly envy became hatred directed at the demons.
“Why can they live up to this long?”
“Who exactly are they? Why are they different from us?”
“What is their purpose? Why would they help us get this far?”
“The devil is exactly what?”
“Where did they come from?”
“Do we have no problem trusting them like this? Creatures like them ..”
“Abritish, see their skin and hair color!”
“Shape them terrible!”
“Why can such a creature get into government? Just throw them out!”
“We no longer need demons! They're too dangerous!”
“Their knowledge is too dangerous! We could have controlled them!”
Generation after generation, a stigma continued to expose the demons and most races from the top considered the demons as pests. But there are also some countries that still respect them, want them to live side by side. Despite the discontent from society, the great conflict was prevented by the policies of the Demon King and his suggestions to the City Kings.
But one night, the King who was the descendant of the Human King who first received the Devils asked, “What are you really? Why did you help us get this far? You are smarter and stronger than us, so what makes you consider yourself weaker than us to want protection?”
The Demon King who got the question was simply stunned. “This is man,” the mind of the King of the demons when he saw the fearful expression of the descendants of the man who received his people.
The Demon King did not answer the question, then directly came out of the throne place and left the kingdom.
Aware of the change, the Demon King immediately gathered his followers in one place and revealed. He had decided in his mind that the time of the demons living in the Real World was over, as was the mission they had taken from the Ancient Demon King and their guiding figure from Hell.
“We have left descendants in this place, we have given knowledge as an expression of gratitude. But as his Mother and Venerable Odrania Dies Orion tell us, man is indeed a powerful being. But it was only physically, their determination was very fragile. Before the calamity comes, let's end this and come back! We have sown seedlings for the coming of Father. Let's go back ... to our hometown!”